and a half

idiom

1

—used in measurements of time, distance, weight, etc., to indicate one half of the stated unit of measurement

My daughter is two and a half (years old).

The fish was a foot and a half long.

weighs ten and a half pounds

2

informal

—used to say that something is very good, large, difficult, etc.

That was a meal and a half!

Renovating a house is a job and a half.

Examples of and a half in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That mark puts the Pistons firmly in the mix for a Play-In Tournament spot in the Eastern Conference and just two and a half games back of a top-six seed. —Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024

Three more followed over the next two and a half years. —Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024

According to Oxfam, just nine U.N. trucks carrying food and water have managed to enter the region in the past two and a half months. —Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024

He is best known as the architect of the Sandy Lane Hotel, the island’s premier five-star resort, about a mile and a half to the north. —Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024